HMs DIY #1-6

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Another check I forgot. You set a dynamic color for a graphics element and set the value type to fixed text. It must be a value, fixed text does not work. You have it twice in your layout.

Will add a check to my todo list.

Aaah... :-)

>>>if you create a filled rectangle that is greater than 281 wide or 469 high, which I've used to replicate a white background then the rectangle turns black

The first element of my 1030-layout is a white filled rectangle over the whole screen and it doesn‘t make any problem.

<Device name="Edge 1030"/>
<LayoutElement type="1" color="FFFFFF" x="0" y="0" x2="282" y2="470" eletype="RF" valuetype="FX" radius="0" stroke="1" nr_values="1"/>

Strange - or did I got you wrong?

>>>1.1.3 I created a course to follow and I selected Time to Dest - and it showed 00:00 (Garmin's filed was right). It must be said though that I started the course after I had begun with the workout. I wonder if this is related to the previous "all values are now reset on activity start"? 

I have set DIST_DESTINATION, TIME_DESTINATION and ETA to my layout and testet it by loading a stored course and by riding with my NEO. All calculated by avg. speed.

After loading the course the layout shows right figure for DIST_DESTINATION. TIME and ETA are shown as „00“.

After pressing the start-button on the Edge, the figures for DIST and ETA come to life. Since there is no valid value for avg. speed at the very beginning, it takes some seconds to get reasonable figures.

But as far I can say - it works perfectly!

I just did a run (hence the radio silence :-) )

I loaded a course on my Fenix 5+ before I started the activity, still I got 00:00 for "Time to dest (avg speed)" - for the whole run. To be honest I had the same issue with this field on the original DIY field.

Have you set avg.speed and distance and timer.time as elements on your display, too, so you can check, if they deliver reasonable values after starting your activity?

(orig DIY worked for me, too)

The original Garmin fields work without issues. I have both timer and avg pace and distance. They're all fine.

Here is a section of a screenshot of my 1030 during the test-activity:

HM DIY v1.1.3

avg. speed = 23.5 km/h

Timer is at 2 min : 39 sec
above reads time left = 1 h : 57 min

Distance (right field) = 1.0 km
above reads distance left = 46 km

ETA shows 13:09 (1:09 pm)
Clock shows 11:12

I haven't calculated this numbers, but my feeling says: yes - that's ok!

If you want - let me/us download your XML I will make a test on my NEO.

(XMLs are all the same for all devices - so I can test on my Edge)

You can just use the XML I posted 2 hours ago.